About The Word Flimsy
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Flimsy
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What's The Definition Of Flimsy?
[n] a thin strong light-weight translucent paper used especially for making carbon copies
[adj] having little substance or significance; "a flimsy excuse"; "slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot" [adj] lacking solidity or strength; "a flimsy table"; "flimsy construction"; "a fragile link with the past" [adj] resembling cardboard especially in flimsiness; "apartments with cardboard walls" [adj] very thin and insubstantial; "thin paper"; "flimsy voile"; "light summer dresses" Synonyms | Synonyms for Flimsy: cardboard | fragile | inferior | light | onionskin | slight | tenuous | thin | weak Related Terms | Find terms related to Flimsy: adulterated | airy | asinine | attenuate | attenuated | boyish | breakable | brittle | brittle as glass | catchpenny | cheap-jack | cobwebby | crackable | crisp | crispy | crumbly | crushable | cut | dainty | decrepit | delicate | delicately weak | diaphanous | dilapidated | dilute | diluted | effeminate | empty | ethereal | fatuous | feeble | filmy | fine | fine-drawn | finespun | fissile | flabby | flaccid | floppy | foolish | fracturable | fragile | frail | frangible | friable | fribble | fribbling | frivolous | frothy | futile | gaseous | gauzy | gimcrack | gimcracky | girlish | gossamer | gossamery | gracile | idle | implausible | improbable | inadequate | inane | inconceivable | inconclusive | incredible | infirm | insubstantial | jerry | jerry-built | lacerable | lacy | lax | light | lightweight | limp | loose | makeshift | misty | namby-pamby | nugacious | nugatory | otiose | paltry | papery | pasteboardy | poor | puny | ramshackle | rare | rarefied | relaxed | rickety | rubbery | scissile | shaky | shallow | shatterable | shattery | sheer | shivery | silly | sissified | sleazy | slender | slenderish | slight | slight-made | slim | slimmish | slinky | small | splintery | subtile | subtle | superficial | svelte | sylphlike | tacky | tenuous | thin | thin-bodied | thinned | thinned-out | thinnish | thin-set | thin-spun | threadlike | transparent | trifling | trite | trivial | unbelievable | uncompact | uncompressed | unconvincing | unproved | unrigorous | unsatisfactory | unsound | unsubstantial | unsustained | vacuous | vague | vain | vapid | vaporous | vulnerable | wasp-waisted | watered | watered-down | watery | weak | weakly | willowy | windy | wiredrawn | wispy | womanish See Also | typewriter paper | typing paper Flimsy In Webster's Dictionary \Flim"sy\, a. [Compar. {Flimsier}; superl. {Flimsiest}.]
[Cf. W. llymsi naked, bare, empty, sluggish, spiritless. Cf.
{Limsy}.]
Weak; feeble; limp; slight; vain; without strength or
solidity; of loose and unsubstantial structure; without
reason or plausibility; as, a flimsy argument, excuse,
objection.
Proud of a vast extent of flimsy lines. --Pope.
All the flimsy furniture of a country miss's brain.
--Sheridan.
Syn: Weak; feeble; superficial; shallow; vain.
\Flim"sy\, n. 1. Thin or transfer paper. 2. A bank note. [Slang, Eng.] |
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